Got a reply: "Hello, Thank you for your email. We accept returns if a book was shipped incorrectly, or is in a different condition than advertised. We
will refund when book is returned, to verify condition of book. Books that are sent correctly and no longer wanted will be refunded
the purchase price only. Returns must be returned within 7 days of delivery date. CDs, DVDs, videos, CD-Roms, and cassettes are non-
refundable."

If someone started a group fundraiser to raise enough funds to get secure that book, I wouldn't mind contributing. Just saying.

I'd pledge $10.

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Agreed, someone should definitely start this I'd be willing to contribute as well, especially since we have nothing to lose because if it's not the correct item whoever ends up buying it can simply ship it back and refund everyone's money. I'd start it myself but I don't have the time to scan over a hundred pages

ANYBODY INTERESTED IN CHIPPING IN AN AMOUNT FOR THE BOOK, PM ME FOR PAYPAL INFO.
WHEN THE DESIRED AMOUNT AT 90 (FOR ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COSTS + TRACKING) USD HAS BEEN REACHED, THE BOOK WILL BE PURCHASED THEN SCANNED AND SHARED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IF BEING THE CORRECT PRODUCT, OTHERWISE IT WILL BE RETURNED AND THE MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED.

IF THE BOOK GETS LOST IN THE MAIL FROM THE SELLERS END, NO SCAN CAN BE DONE AND THEREFORE THERE IS THE POSSIBILLITY OF NO REFUND BEING AVAILABLE. THIS ALL DEPENDS ON THE SELLER.

IF THE BOOK GETS LOST IN TRANSIT FROM MY END FOR BEING THE WRONG PRODUCT, NO REFUND CAN BE DONE UNLESS THE SELLER STATE OTHERWISE, HOWEVER I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY WAY TO SEND IT WITH THE BEST SHIPPING OPTION AVAILABLE, WITH TRACKING INCLUDED.

THERE IS VERY LITTLE RISK IN IT BEING LOST IN TRANSIT, BUT I WANTED TO STATE THAT THERE IS ALWAYS SUCH A POSSIBILTY. NEVER HAVE HAD IT HAPPEN IN ANY OF MY 100+ PURCHASES ONLINE AS MY COUNTRY IS VERY RELIABLE WITH THESE THINGS.

note: i am a trustworthy member who has done business here in the past and on the web in general sans any problems.

so let's do this gentlemen, and quick at that, as to not have it disappear right within our reach.

What country do you live in? Since you pointed it out I'm thinking possibly not the US?

And I'm not sure why people are calling it fake. I doubt a business like this one has time to troll game nerds If it's not anything special then it's just a misplaced product, nothing deliberate I'm sure.

Oh, and how much will you be chipping in? I'm just assuming you'll be chipping in something at least I'm possibly in for $10 just to solve this. I'm guessing most likely that if an order was placed they'd eventually message back saying they couldn't find it in their warehouses, so this would probably be concluded pretty quickly.

BTW, I looked through my emails and found the Brady guy I talked to some years back. His name is Brian Boyle. This will become a wall of text, but for anyone curious I may as well share his response.

Hello.

I wish I could help you but, sadly, I cannot. Several factors are conspiring to keep you apart from your desire.

1. Kip and I were Prima's staff writers and, as such, the product managers always automatically assigned us to all of their potentially high-priority/ high-pressure/ high-profit projects. That meant that they assigned us to literally hundreds of titles -- both announced and unannounced -- several months in advance, titles that usually never saw the light of day. Frankly, our names used to litter Amazon like Coke cups at a Kings game until Amazon put some serious effort into cleaning out dead titles.

2. Oftentimes the licensor's take from the sale of our strategy guides amounted to less than 5% of the total profit they stood to make from sales of their game. Therefore, Prima was almost always the lowest consideration on their list of priorities. Far more often than not, the licensor never provided us with a copy of their game. Even with official relationships, there were plenty of times Don Tica had to cajole Betas from his personal contacts inside the game studios, or else Prima had to make do with Japanese imports (when available) that Kip and I would play through on modded consoles.

3. When Prima would receive Betas in an official capacity, it would always be on Nintendo 64 developer's cartridges, which were rewritable ROM carts. Prima had to sign non-disclosure, liability and intellectual property agreements, and then appropriate responsible parties had to sign for the carts themselves, which were only available to Kip and I for a very limited time. Once we'd completed our walkthroughs, Prima had to return the developer's cartridges to the licensor and the same responsible parties had to sign the carts back into the studio's possession.

Obviously, many things have changed in the strategy guide industry since then. In the '90s, Prima won the Nintendo lawsuit and became a subsidiary of Random House, catapulting Prima into its current position as the industry's 800-lb. gorilla and crushing nearly all their competition. You could build a stairway to heaven on the corpses of competing strategy guide publishing houses that fell in the wake of Prima's one-two punch. That, and the fact that most game studios have reversed their position on the perceived nuisance factor of creating strategy guides, some even going so far as to hire their own permanent in-house writing staff.

Long story short (too late, I'm sure, but I almost never have the opportunity to write about my Prima experience), I never saw the game, and if the cartridge ever crossed Kip's desk, he sure as Hell didn't get to keep it for long. If it ever existed, it has long since vanished...as has Kip (I'll assume for an unrelated reason). No one that I used to work with has seen him or heard from him in over a decade.

I wish you good luck in your search. If there's any other information you think you might need that I might know, please feel free to email me and ask.

i've done this tons and it doesn't matter. the seller will send with EMS which takes 3~5 days.

the question is who wants to donate or not. i'm only worried about customs, which i am awaiting the sellers response to. if that doesn't work out, then fine, someone else can handle this within the US.

meanwhile those interested in funding should come forward, confirm, and just be ready knowing the deal might be done any time soon.

If anyone reads the topic you'll clearly see that this topic is about raising money for a guidebook, anyone I'd think could guess how to look at an Amazon user's feedback, and two people including myself have already talked with the seller and posted about it.

At least read the topic and have some common sense and... just read the topic! It isn't that hard :x